Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard drives on his Mac, and wanted an easy way to tell them apart - so he made a custom icon for each.

Advertisement

To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is available in Apple's Developer Tools (Xcode, to be exact), which comes on your OS X install disk or can be downloaded from Apple (login required). Then a utility called Icns2Rsrc turns the icon into the right file format. This is a bit of an investment for an icon but it looks like a neat way to see what drive's what immediately on your Mac desktop.